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12 seeds have gone 47-97 (32.6%) vs. 5 seeds. 11 seeds have gone 49-95 (34%) vs. 6 seeds 10 seeds have gone 58-90 (39.2%) vs. 7 seeds 9 seeds have gone 69-79 (46.6%) vs. 8 seeds Moral of the story is there is little difference between an 11 and 12 seed odds of winning, but a sizeable boost in a 9 & 10 seed winning. http://mcubed.net/ncaab/seeds.shtml Edit: To expand on my above post 13 seeds win 19.5% vs. 4 seeds and 14 seeds win only 16.1% vs. 3 seeds.

+1 Savage

With all the hybrid defense packages in the NFL these days, I wouldn't be surprised if that position already exists. I could see some team that feels he could fit their scheme reaching for him a round or 2 earlier than what many experts expect. I wish him the best of luck.

The Zips are still in an excellent position to win the regular season MAC title and #1 overall seed in the MACC. They are up 2 games with 6 remaining. Of those 6, 4 are at the JAR a place the Zips have yet to lose at this season. A strong regular season finish plus a MACC win should still give them a decent seed come tourney time. I'm confident they will hang onto the 2 game lead. Best case scenario is the Zips win out and enter the tourney as a 10 seed, if lucky maybe a 9. A loss in MAC tourney puts them in the NIT. An at-large seems like a huge stretch at this point and honestly shouldn't be our focus anyways. The MAC has been a 1 bid conference for the past 16 years and any team banking on that changing this year was likely going to end up disappointed.

This game was lost by the fact NIU managed to get an 15 extra shot attempts and 5 extra free throw attempts. NIU managed to both dominate the glass (+7 boards) and did a much better job of not turning the ball over (6 fewer turnovers). Akron shot well and held NIU to a meager 42% fg%. Akron just can't afford to concede 15 offensive rebounds.

Let's not knock the guy for sitting behind Zeke and Hyde. In Warren Ball's 3 non redshirt years those 2 guys amassed nearly 5500 combined rushing yards and both will regularly be seeing the field next NFL season. I'm not predicting him getting 1,500+ yards, but I feel he has the opportunity to do really well here.

So it has been a few years since I made it out to the JAR. How early would you guys estimate that I would need to get to the game in order to guarantee myself a bobble head?

Well hopefully Akron massacres them so people will see how bad Ken+ sucks.

I've tried calling twice today and both times I got a recording that said something along the lines of I'm contacting them outside business hours and I need to call back during business hours of Monday-Friday 9am-5pm. Unless I'm missing something it's Friday 10:08 AM. Oh well, I made an effort. I suppose they don't want my money.

Akron's RPI climbed to 40. http://espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/rpi/_/sort/RPI Kenpom has them at 63 http://kenpom.com Lunardi has them as a 13th seed. https://espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/bracketology

I was going to see about getting a 3 game pack for the Ken+, Buffalo, and OU game, but I went to gozips.com/tickets like it states and that package was no where to be found.

Nice seeing the Zips get some love. Getting a game on ESPN2 is pretty big news.

The same weekend that Akron played Iona and UCSB in Vegas, Ken+ played in a Vegas tournament that featured SMU, Colorado, and Penn St. IDK if Akron had an opportunity to compete in this instead of Ken+, I'm guessing no, but getting into more of these type of tournaments is what Akron should aim for in the future. These are opportunities to make statement wins on neutral courts. Your aren't going to see teams like SMU or Colorado come to the JAR so playing some place where the stakes are about even is the next best thing.

The Zips are having their best year from the 3-pt line and makes and attempts across the NCAAM have been trending upwards. All I'm saying is NCAAM teams relying heavily on 3-pt shots for offense isn't some new phenomena.

3-pt shooting has been a huge part of college basketball as far back as I can remember. Granted I'm only 26. It definitely beat the NBA to the party in that regard. The shorter distance and the fact a lot of smaller schools rely on it as an equalizer when facing larger schools has a lot to do with that. I'm still surprised to see that a player has taken 195 shots on the season and all 195 were 3-pointers.

"Does the MAC as an entire conference even have a win over an RPI top 50 team in OOC play this year?" I specified in OOC play.

I don't see the double standard. Those P5 conference schools played and beat really good teams in other conferences. Does the MAC as an entire conference even have a win over an RPI top 50 team in OOC play this year? Schools like Butler and Gonzaga made a name for themselves despite playing in small conferences by proving that they could hang with and beat other power schools. Every few years the MAC will have a team put together a decent postseason run, but most years they are 1 and done in both March Madness and the NIT. If the MAC starts winning marque OOC games and they perform better in post season play, the selection committee will take notice. Edit: Looking back I see Ball State has a win over Valparaiso whose RPI is at exactly #50. That is 1 marque win for a conference that has 12 teams. That isn't good.

Oklahoma shooting that volume of 3s and still hitting 45.8% of them for the season. That's impressive.

Akron put on a shooting clinic tonight. 16 made 3s and 49% shooting from the field, 50% from behind the arc.

The athletic arm race just in general is out of control. The P5 schools for the most part can afford what they are spending. Everyone else is going broke trying to keep up with the joneses. http://sports.usatoday.com/ncaa/finances/

BGSU took advantage of an easy early MAC schedule to start 3-1 and have gone 1-5 since. They perhaps have the most brutal MAC schedule remaining as their final 8 games Akron 2x, UB 2X, NIU, Can't, OU, and their only MAC bottom feeder left WMU. I see them finishing MAC play going 6-12 and being 1 of the bottom 3-4 teams.

I don't see a 5th year transfer QB going to a school that has an established starter. I'm expecting Kato to be redshirted. If Woodson goes down and none of the other QBs on the roster can perform, it's not like they can't burn his redshirt.

I'm going Zips by 15.

Don't forget Marshall is sitting at #3 in C-USA with a 8-3 conference record. We just need to keep winning to boost our potential March Madness seed. Right now Lunardi has us slotted as a 14th seed and facing MSU in round one. With a strong finish I feel a 10th or 11th seed is attainable, which would put us in a much better position to get our 1st March Madness win. It's fun to speculate about an at-large bid, but I don't want to put our tournaments hope in the hands of the selection committee. Odds are even if we did manage to pull off an at-large bid, we would get placed in one of those play-in games. Our goal should be to win the MAC tournament.

Zips 77-73